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Unique IDCWGC/1/1/9/F/52
Alt Ref NoWG 1734/2/1/1 PT.1
TitleTablets In Cathedrals - UK - Westminster Abbey - Unveiling
DescriptionMain topics: attempt to persuade King George to unveil tablet; arrangements for unveiling by Prince of Wales; invitations to Dominion Prime Ministers; arrangements for press reporting of ceremony.
Date16/6/1926 - 6/11/1926
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Content NoteIncluding: Copy of letter from F. Ware to Sir F. Ponsonby re the King's opinion of proposed inscription on tablet; 14 June 1926. Copy of letter from Ponsonby re new inscription proposed by R. Kipling; 16 June 1926. Letter from Kipling to Ware re ceremony and 'The Bull' (probably 'The Bull that Thought'); 2 Oct. 1926. Letter from Ware to G. Dawson re uniqueness of ceremony; 14 Oct. 1926. Letters from British War Graves Association (Sarah Smith) re invitation to ceremony; 14; 18 and 21 Oct. 1926. Envelope containing admission cards.
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DS/UK/4Kipling; (Joseph) Rudyard (1865-1936); writer and poet1865-1936
DS/UK/2Ware; Sir; Fabian Arthur Goulstone (1869-1949); newspaper editor and the founder of the Imperial War Graves Commission1869-1949
DS/UK/61Windsor [formerly Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]; Edward (1894-1972); King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Empire, Emperor of India, Prince of Wales, Duke of Windsor, Earl of Chester, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, and Great Steward of Scotland, Duke of Saxony, and Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Grand Master of the Order of St. Michael and St. George; President of the Imperial War Graves Commission1894-1972
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